4582 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 18 / Friday, January 27, 2006 / Notices 

Dated: January 20, 2006. 

Donald R. Stubbs, 

Acting Director, Registration Division, Office 

of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E6–1044 Filed 1–26–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection 

Renewal (0121); Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). 

Currently, the FDIC is soliciting 

comments concerning the following 

continuing collection of information 

titled: Certification of Compliance with 

Mandatory Bars to Employment (3064–

0121). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 28, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments by 

any of the following methods. All 

comments should refer to the name and 

number of the collection: 

• http://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/ 

laws/federal/notices.html. 

• E-mail: comments@fdic.gov. 

Include the name and number of the 

collection in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Gary A. Kuiper 

(202.942.3824), Counsel, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, PA 

1730–3000, 550 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20429. 

• Hand Delivery: Comments may be 

hand-delivered to the guard station at 

the rear of the 550 17th Street Building 

(located on F Street), on business days 

between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

A copy of the comments may also be 

submitted to the OMB desk officer for 

the FDIC: Mark Menchik, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 3208, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

A. Kuiper, at the address identified 

above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal 

to renew the following currently 

approved collection of information: 

Title: Certification of Compliance 

with Mandatory Bars to Employment. 

OMB Number: 3064–0121. 

Form Number: FDIC 2120/16. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Affected Public: Applicants for 

employment with the FDIC. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

200. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Total Annual Burden: 33.3. hours. 

General Description of Collection: 

Prior to an offer of employment, job 

applicants to the FDIC must sign a 

certification that they have not been 

convicted of a felony or been in other 

circumstances that prohibit persons 

from becoming employed by or 

providing services to the FDIC. 

Request for Comment 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the FDIC’s functions, including whether 

the information has practical utility; (b) 

the accuracy of the estimates of the 

burden of the information collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

At the end of the comment period, the 

comments and recommendations 

received will be analyzed to determine 

the extent to which the collection 

should be modified prior to submission 

to OMB for review and approval. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice also will be summarized or 

included in the FDIC’s requests to OMB 

for renewal of these collections. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of 

January, 2006. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 06–767 Filed 1–26–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6714–01–M 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The application also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

Web site at http://www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than February 23, 

2006. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 

(Richard Walker, Community Affairs 

Officer) P.O. Box 55882, Boston, 

Massachusetts 02106-2204: 

1. Merrimack Bancorp MHC, Concord, 

New Hampshire; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of 

Merrimack County Savings Bank, 

Concord, New Hampshire. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 

President) 701 East Byrd Street, 

Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528: 

1. American National Bankshares 

Inc., Danville, Virginia; to merge with 

Community First Financial Corporation, 

Lynchburg, Virginia, and thereby 

indirectly acquire Community First 

Bank, Lynchburg, Virginia. 

C. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414: 

1. Wintrust Financial Corporation, 

Lake Forest, Illinois; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of Old 

Plank Trail Community Bank, National 


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